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Re:Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple by visarga on Monday May 22, 2023 @07:23AM (#36030006)
Maybe not everyone needs to know, but for example it's important to know about it in ML. You can have overflow, underflow, non-deterministic addition when parallelised, or just need to speed up your network.
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Re:Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple by hugatest on Monday May 22, 2023 @09:42AM (#36031367)
Right. You can know these abstract properties though without knowing how a float is actually represented in memory.
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